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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "aliben mosa" <aliben_mosa051@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:17:26 +0000
Subject: God bless you as you may accept my sincere apologies.

How are you and your family I hope fine? Do accept my sincere apologies
if
my mail does not meet your personal ethics. By introduction, I am, a
branch
manager in one of a reputable financial institution here in Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso “Bank of Africa”. I would love to build up a solid
foundation
with you in time coming if you can be able to help me in this business
proposal. Listen, a generous customer of this bank died on March 11th
2004
at Madrid train attack, this decease left Sun of Eight Million Five
Hundred
thousand United State Dollars ($8.5)

BBC NEWS LINK:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/11/newsid_4273000/4273817.stm

I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident
that I
am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families.
I
need your urgent assistance in transferring this above mentioned sum
into
your bank account or you come here in this bank for cash paying into
your
hands. I don't want the money to go into our Bank treasury as an
abandoned
fund. Since our bank could not locate any of his nearest person to
inherit
this money. So this is the reason why I contacted you, so that with me
giving you all his information we can release the money to you as the
nearest person to the deceased customer. Please I would like you to
keep
this proposal as a top secret and delete if you are not interested.
Upon
receipt of your reply, I will send you full details on how the business
will
be executed.

Thanks
Stay Blessed.
Yours sincerely,

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